How Iran developed its nuclear program with American help, World News

Talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal resumed today, but the meeting ended in just an hour. The diplomats met but hardly discussed anything as Iran played hard.

President Raisi’s regime is demanding big concessions to get back to the deal. Iran is reportedly getting closer to enriching weapons-grade uranium.

The nuclear issue has gone through several turns since the 1950s. In 1953, the former US President Dwight Eisenhower launched the “Atoms for Peace” initiative. The idea was to supply friendly countries with civilian nuclear technology in the hope that they would not pursue nuclear weapons.

Iran was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the nuclear program as the US first donated a nuclear reactor to Iran for research, then the Americans built another reactor at Tehran University.

The American government also shared weapons-grade uranium with Tehran. The initiative helped boost Iran’s nuclear program, which the Biden government is now trying to stop decades later.

The same reactors have become America’s greatest nightmare. The first American reactor was still in operation in Tehran until 2015. Iran has built larger plants in at least five other locations – Arak, Isfahan, Fordow, Natanz and Bushehr.

The most important nuclear facility is in Natanz. It has three underground facilities to protect equipment from enemy attacks.

Natanz is the most important uranium enrichment plant in Iran. Uranium is the fuel used to make atomic bombs.

In the early 2000s, American intelligence believed that Iran was aggressively pursuing atomic bombs. Tehran had a crash program to build five atomic bombs. The 2015 nuclear deal halted those efforts, however, but after the United States pulled out of the deal under the former Trump administration, Iran resumed its nuclear program.

Tehran is believed to be heading for weapons-grade uranium enrichment, although serious doubts about its capabilities currently exist. The US believes Iran does not have mastery of the technologies used to manufacture nuclear weapons.

It also remains unclear whether Iran has a viable concept for a nuclear weapon. Tehran is also weak when it comes to protecting its nuclear facilities. It has proven to be an easy target for Israel.

In April, the facility in Natanz was hit by a cyber attack. The facility was just sabotaged when Iran decided to accelerate the production of enriched uranium.

But despite the setbacks, the Iranian nuclear program continues. The country’s centrifuges are still running with Russian help. Moscow has stepped up support for Iran’s nuclear program, and as long as Iran continues to receive Russian aid, the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons remains.

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